Oh you don’t believe in science, huh

Yea man read some marx

I am a scientist.

And you don’t believe in the social sciences?

I don’t believe in the term "social science."

I sentence you to four years of cock and ball torture.

You as well.

Didn’t marx said that economics is pretty much capitalist ideology?

What

I’m reading this Microeconomics book. It’s what it says. It might be biased or I might be misinterpreting.

Crying.

Look this is what it says:

“ Marx argued that cultural and intellectual factors were not the cause of historical change; rather, it was the material facts of history—the development of economic life—that provided the basis for science, religion, philosophy and other “mental” conceptions. Beyond this, he had a particular theory of economic development, in which all known societies, beyond the most primitive, are divided into a large class that produces most of the wealth through its labor and a small class that commands a “surplus” portion of that wealth for its own use—the exploited and the exploiters. Very simply put, the primacy of economic life over the life of ideas translates into the claim that each class is likely to hold beliefs that justify its particular interests. Each will see its own particular class interest as universal, the ideal that all would agree on if they only understood. He attached the word “ideology” to this interest-based set of beliefs. For Marx, the notion that God created the world pretty much as we find it was part of the ideology of the Middle Ages of European Christendom. It was believed by the ruling orders because it justified their position of wealth and power vis-a-vis the peasants under their command. When the peasants gained an awareness of their very different interests, they rejected this theology and replaced it with another, under which a social upheaval was required to achieve a second coming of Christ. Similarly, the wealthiest elites in the modern capitalist order adhere to an ideology in which making profits through business investment is natural and desirable; they believe this because it is in their interest to do so. (In other words, economics is capitalist ideology!)”

What's the quote

Read my post above.

???? Really posted this

Too many big words chief.

Science is about using the scientific method to understand or explain phenomena

By your definition aspects of psychology arent sciences

As well as even physics

“the wealthiest elites in the modern capitalist order adhere to an ideology in which making profits through business investment is natural and desirable; they believe this because it is in their interest to do so. (In other words, economics is capitalist ideology!)”

Yes?

The overall goal is to get closer to the truth tho. Both definitions are correct.

You do realize youre just making a semantic argument to debase the study of economics.

Im not even an economics major and I find this baffling.

You do realize that many aspects of medicine arent sciencr by your definition

Science is determined by the use of the Scientific process not the result.

You state that in a pointed way as if Economics does not seek to create models to predict outcomes

If this is your working definition than what is your contention.

"I cant name one economics fact"

How does that disqualify economics as a science.

Medicine is an applied science, not a hard science. Would you say economics is an applied science?

Economics is a social science

These are all fields of science

And hard science is some stemcell dweeb term.

Natural, Social, and Applied sciences are terms people who arent d***heads use